It started off as a joke. But after exhausting several other options, becoming a sugar baby didn’t seem so bad for a 20-year-old girl trying to pay her way through college. “After my freshman year, I got really depressed,” she said. “Me and my boyfriend broke up. I lost [the HOPE Scholarship ...

By Jason Smith. Writer Jason Smith cuddles with a local sugar baby to find out more about “mutually beneficial dynamics.” Published on January 4, 2018 as 15 Minutes in the Opinions section of the Sacramento News & Review